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massachusetts wednesday. stop short of declaring a national emergency, he hinted that such a move could be coming in the weeks ahead.e clear, climate change is an emergency and in the coming weeks im going to the power ive have as president to turn these words into formal official government actions of the appropriate proclamation, executive order that they president possesses. >> when it comes to fighting climate change, i will not take no for an answer. >> lets bring in also journal ...

Lawsuit is? >> basically the idea that the education department is now given official sanction to a group that is primary actual purposes going to be lobbying and organizing. and the idea is that these sorts of councils, as you mention, in order to balance against the possibility of this kind of political advocacy have space for equal representation from a bunch of different political viewpoints. but, if you look at the resumes of the members of this council which gillian just gave us the rundow...

Trillion dollar bill will ever pass, the mission misses significantly. the best chance of getting it done is for that more conservative bill on the larger more progressive bill to move together. if i were to house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what lets let enough house republican votes for this, again lots of republicans like that. legislation lets another republican vote for this, that it passes. because we dont mind this bill, its fairly conservative bill it lines ...

Leader i would look at that and say you know what? lets enough house republicans vote for this. lots of republicans like that legislation. lets let enough republicans vote for this that it passes. because we dont mind this bill. its fairly conservative. it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities. and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progressives have. the larger bill will never pass. the whole debate will be a waste of time for the democrats and we have something to brag about n...

Leaders providing some votes to pass this infrastructure bill? because that would undercut the goal of house progressives if they do pass this tonight. the progressive position, their fear as you point out, is that if the infrastructure bill passes then centrist democrats in the house and the senate will bolt. they will say, we didnt commit to doing this other thing or we would like to shrink it, cut it in half. centrist democrats insisted that is not what they are planning to do. congressman go...

>> i think chris is right, it was all muddled. it was just a muddled discussion, which isnt the end of the world. the democratic primary process is elaborate. the last time there was transportational change, it started in the democratic primary process. >> that was messy, 2008, obama was pushed on health care, by the john edwards of the world and by some of the more progressives in the race, that ended up forcing obama into a more progressive position on health care. talking about harris specifi...

Understand and perhaps one person in every store will be better informed than as a result of that have more empathy and understanding and compassion to others. if we do that then the companys successful. this is not about the stock price or pr or marketing. i think this is a bigger issue, and that is that companies, i believe, have a deeper responsibility today to their people in the communities we serve, and im trying to use our scale for good. thats the bottom line. >> let me show you our view...

It. >> it is not. it is a far more progressive position if thats where you are aiming for, is to say we need to be stimulating the economy at this point. >> i also think it is two things. when are they going to stop using some exception at the rule like the surfer guy. okay. that guy exists. >> i work in television. >> the other thing too is, this is an opportunity to say, you want to know what. remember when ricky was down and we had to loan him money to pay his rent. everybody doesnt have us. ...